Transgender Lion

She is a female lion – a lioness – living in Botswana’s Okavango Delta but looks and behaves very much like a male lion and the most discernible feature is her magnificent, flowing mane. The locals have named her Mmamoriri. Scientists are not sure why she has the mane of an adult male lion. …

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Witch Wanted to Eat Her Cat

In a throwback to the Dark Ages and witches familiars (“familiar” (noun): a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve or guard a person.), a woman claimed that she was a witch and that she wanted to kill and eat her cat. She got as far as killing her …

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Cat-astrophy – Bungling British

Back in 1978 there was a firefighters’ strike. The army where called out to step into their shoes. The army does not have fire trucks. They have their own firefighting vehicles called “Green Goddesses” – a sort of pared-down cheap version of a fire truck painted green and built in the mid 1950s. On …

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Should It Be Illegal to Declaw Your Cat?

Photographed after the declawing operation at the clinic referred to on this page.

The New York Times asks the question in the title in a short post in which they refer to the bill going through New York state’s legislature which intends to ban declawing in that state. It is being debated. The vets are against it as they would be. They say that the decision to …

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